His thoughts are along the same line. It makes him turn so he's fully in Jack's embrace so he can pull him in and kiss him, long and slow and intimate. It's not that he doesn't want to hear about he past, more that he wants to make sure Jack knows it doesn't affect his feelings towards him, and that it doesn't make him think about the future and the fact that for Jack he's already another lost face in those photos. He wonders if his picture would have one day been added to the box.
"I love you for that. For being your best. I always have." For being a hero. For always doing what's right.